ICT4D SIG Business Meeting
The ICT4D SIG held its annual business meeting at the CIES conference in Chicago on March 1, 2010. Members discussed membership, the new ICT4D SIG website and various othe business matters. Membership in the SIG doubled this year. This reflects the growing interest in ICT4D but is also in part due to the new registration format which allows CIES members to sign up for SIGs when they register for the conference. The increased membership this year allowed the SIG to host two highlighted sessions. The SIG hopes to continue increasing its membership next year and its number of highlighted sessions. Finally, it was decided that SIG leadership posts will be unchanged in the next year, with Jayson Richardson (University of North Carolina Wilmington, soon to be University of Kentucky) and Jeffrey Lee (Asuza Pacific University) co-chairing the SIG and Tryggvi Thayer (University of Minnesota) acting as information officer.

Members discussed plans for the new ICT4D SIG website. The plans are to carry on developing the website as a dynamic and interactive platform for CIES members interested in ICT4D. Some of the functions members asked be added to the website include a multi-authored blog with periodically updated information from contributers and a way of listing and commenting on links of interest, such as to journals and websites. These functions will be added to the site in spring 2010. Members also discussed organizing a series of online chats on topics of interest that will be recorded and made available on the website as podcasts. Stay tuned for further details!

ICT4D SIG Highlighted Sessions
The ICT4D SIG hosted two highlighted sessions at this years CIES conference. The first focused on youth leadership projects involving ICT in Nepal and the second one focused on ICT as a response to local needs. Both sessions were well attended despite the limited space made available. The presentations were very informative and oriented toward novel issues and approaches to ICT4D and generated considerable discussion among attendees. The presentations from these sessions will be made available on the website in the near future.

ICT4D at CIES
Presentations on ICT4D at CIES were not limited to those given at the SIG's highlighted sessions. Presentations of interest to the ICT4D community were given in several other sessions demonstrating the growing interest in the field. Some of these presentations will also be made available on the SIG's website.